Yes my sad word play with the title of one of The Clash's greatest songs ever: "London's Calling". I'm very much my daddys daughter I'm sure you can tell. But Lincoln is calling, I'm due to go back on Sunday, but guess what? We're still walking in this bloomin' winter wonderland! Yes England is seeing it's coldest times ever with lows of -18 and highs of -1 degrees C (don't try and make me spell that word, there's not a chance I'll get it right, that's for scientists and news reporters to know, not photographers, we take pictures of the cold, not record it.) My mum had promised that she would drive me back but the likelihood of that is slowly slipping through my fingers like the snow that is causing such misery in the world. I fall on my bottom at least 4 times every time I try to get to our nearest town.
But ANYWAY! I'm going to stop rambling on now. Christmas was wonderful as I'm sure you all can imagine with the grandparents and the Uncle visiting from Canada and lots of lovely gluten free food and all that jazz. I went to Luke's house and finally got my passport sorted which is excellent. Also I have finally got my pictures printed so i can get on with my work now and hopefully get a better mark than a 3rd. As I'm sure every other person who blogs is doing, I'm sure I SHOULD be writing about my New Years eve, but unlike the rest of the country I spent it with my boyfriend and his family and it was possibly some of the most disturbing days I ahve ever lived through. But to allow my mother-in-law and father-in-law to keep some of their dignity I am going to spare you all the horrific details and jsut move on.
So that leaves me with talking about the only times I have been out recently, once to go back to college to visit my amazing IT teacher from college; Lynette, and also to do a bit of shopping for films I should ahve bought weeks ago. I bought Halloween, Scream, The Birds, The bicycle thieves and finally, one of the most grotesque films ever; The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover. I know you will be thinking "but Halloween and scream are much worse!" And I'll probably agree with you but I haven't watched them yet so I think I'll reserve my judgement for now thank you. I also went shopping with elizabeth, my friend from being about 4 years old. CD's, hair dye and jeans were purchased as well as a couple of books and as I have said before that I would tell all about this series of work, I shall do so now while I wait for my brother to go to bed and the appropriate time for me and my dad to start watching "the birds" by alfred Hitchcock (I'm sure there's too many C's in that mans name for the good of it. He's like E_war_Woo_war_, little joke on Edward Woodward's name for you there)
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
I do actually kiss the ground this woman walks on for her noughts and crosses series. It has everything a good story needs; a romance, lots of action, a whole heap of underdogs, a really good moral and a new born baby (I'm a girl we like seeing new babies!) The storyline is really clever because she swaps around the way things were in our past, creates a brand new set of pop singers, popular songs, political figures, locations, even a brand new set of swear words and throws them all into our time frame while creating a completely different past.
Where as in reality it was the blacks who were taken into the slave trade and treat terribly, the colours have been swapped so the whites were the slaves and blacks were the majority, but there is still a major difference between reality and the books, the two colours never really mixed to be equals as well as in reality. This is the really big point of the book and the fantastic moral of the story, by swapping round the majority with the minority, Malorie Blackman has cleverly created a world that perfectly highlights that all people are exactly the same and that skin colour doesn't affect anything.
The main characters are Persephone Hadley and Callum McGregor. The whole way through the book you are taken with the characters as they try and fight to stay together as a couple when the whole world is against them and so by the end of the book, the demise of Callum has tears streaming down your face and you screaming at the unfair outcome of the book. the story line continues with an even smaller minority that shows that even though things look a lot better than in Sephy and Callum's day, things still aren't equal. I'ts a book filled with so many emotions; happy, sad, excitement, stress and so much anger for this young couple who put up with so much more than anyone could ever realise.
I have just finished "checkmate" which is the third book in the series and I only bought it a few days ago but it is so attention grabbing and unbelieveable that I simply couldn't stop reading, even when the words stopped making sence because my eyes were watering during the last few chapters.
If you can find these books, buy them and read them. I highly reccommend you do.
Noughts and Crosses
An eye for an Eye
Knife's edge
Checkmate
Double Crossed
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